Live on the Edge (vicariously!)

Submitted by Adults on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 10:45

The true story of one man's miraculous survival.

When a falling boulder traps Aron Ralston in a remote Utah canyon, a thrill-seeker's adventure becomes the challenge of a lifetime. Over the next five days, Ralston embarks on a remarkable personal journey in which he relies on the memories of family and friends as well as his own courage and ingenuity to turn adversity into triumph!

In this novel, Tim Overleigh joins a team of men climbing the Godesh ridge in Nepal. The journey turns deadly as the climbers fall victim to a murderer within their group.

A dramatic account of the worst disaster in the history of mountain climbing on K2, the world's second highest peak.

At age 37, George Mallory decided to climb Mt. Everest and was last seen 400 feet from the top. In 1999, his body was discovered, and the question of whether he made it to the top remains a mystery.

Kodas exposes the ways in which money and ego have corrupted both mountaineers and Sherpa guides.

A biography of Scott Fischer, one of the climbers that perished in the May 1996 incident on Everest.

A memoir by Ed Viesturs, a cautious, but successful climbing whos' motto is “Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”